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1. MT may be a cheap and quick solution to understand each other If you work in an international environment you get used to communicate with people coming from different countries and don’t realize your brain localizes automatically. But even if you know some languages, there are a lot you don’t understand at all…Few days ago… Continue reading 3 reasons to try machine translation

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FingerReader is a wearable device that assists in reading printed and digital text. It was created by the Fluid Interfaces group from the MIT Media Lab. This tool is both for visually impaired people, as well as an aid for language translation. Users can scan a text line with their finger and receive an audio… Continue reading A wearable Text-Reading Device

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Marja Vaba is a Translation Quality Manager working for one of the biggest and most innovative IT world companies. Her contribution is very useful to understand in which direction the translation/localization is going towards terminology management. 1) Linda Burchi: Could you please introduce yourself? What is your academic background, work experience and current position? Marja… Continue reading Interview with Marja Vaba – Translation Quality Manager

A reader asked me on Linkedin if Universal translator was based on Google translate. I investigated, but I didn't get any good information so I made a comparison by machine translating the same content with Universal translator and then with Google translate. the first article, first clause of the European Constitution – Establishment of the Union… Continue reading Universal translator vs Google translate

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I took three portions of three different French texts to be machine translated with Universal Translator into English. These are the three samples: first article, first clause of the European Constitution – Establishment of the Union (here the full version); the first part of an article from the French newspaper l'Express, click here to read the full text;… Continue reading Universal translator – App test

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“I really would like to read that book but I don’t have time”, how many times did we say it? With this tool you will probably read more. I love reading, I read everything I find, romances, manuals, comics...and very often I cannot do it as much as I would like. Listening to audio books is… Continue reading Whispersync for Voice

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I work in software development. I keep on writing from time to time People's Code to continue following some of my oldest passions: linguistics and language technologies. I'm Italian and I live in Luxembourg. Ah... the blog's name comes from my favorite definition of natural language: it is a shared code. It is not nice nor ugly, not simple nor difficult - we understand each other only because we share the same code and we (often) agree on it.
Ehm ho un altro blog in Italiano, ma è un segreto...

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Growing up watching Italian TV stations meant that any time you watched a cartoon, TV series or a movie, the voices you hear are not real voices, and most of the time, the words you hear, don’t match the actor’s mouths. 148 total views, 10 views today